Now waiting the AEGIS version by Fincantieri and even the French FREMM ER (AAW version) and maybe a update of the French FREMM :mrgreen: ;) Great view of the French FREMM ! That will clearly help me finishing my work on this ship now that I have few free time for "shipbucketing" ;) http://www.shipb...
I'm a little late, but very good work ;) Still some problem with the propeller, but I'm no good advice for that, it's always the part I screwed when I draw ;) By the way, I don't think my name deserves to be in the drawing, as I only made minor work on the ship (if I remember well I just ad the unde...
Thanks for the WIP; I was thinking of doing the new Malaysian Gowind they just ordered, but it's the largest variant. If I have the time to work on the Gowind familiy during the hollidays I'll let you know.
French SSNs are indeed the smallest SSN in the world, but at what cost? Even if the Amethyste refit on the original Ruby class improved their stealth abilities, they still are far less stealth than British or US counterparts. They also are among the slowest SSN in the world, maybe the slowest. And i...
What for? The Saudi's main maritime helicopter is the AS532 Cougar which is slightly smaller than the SeaHawk. It's quite the contrary. The Seahawk is around 15m long, while the Cougar is almost 20m long. Other caracteristics are similars by the way, but in a hangar the Cougar took much more space ...
Thank you for the details. I didn't know the LCS has the range for that. I thought they weren't able to travel both fast and far, but I supposed they could be dispatched all around the world. But in a what if world (not in ours, due to obvious financial problems), maybe we could imagine US SSK based...
I just read what you guys wrote about the SSK vs SSN debate, that was very interesting. In France, we operate both SSK and SSN until 2001. Even after the SSN were commissioned, the SSKs remain very useful in order to protect the SSBN when they leave there harbor for example. They were also used in t...